Mem

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Mem
PhoenicianMem
Hebrew
מ ,ם
AramaicMem
Syriac
ܡܡ
Arabic
م
Phonemic representationm
Position in alphabet13
Numerical value40
Alphabetic derivatives of the Phoenician
GreekΜ
LatinM
CyrillicМ

Mem (also spelled Meem, Meme, or Mim) is the thirteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Hebrew mēm מ‎, Aramaic Mem Mem.svg, Syriac mīm ܡܡ, Arabic mīm م and Phoenician mēm Phoenician mem.svg. Its sound value is [m].

The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek mu (Μ), Etruscan M, Latin M, and Cyrillic М.

Origins[]

Mem is believed to derive from the Egyptian hieroglyphic symbol for water,

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which had been simplified by the Phoenicians and named after their word for “water”, WIKI